Counting: The art of enumerative combinatorics

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This book is a nice textbook on enumerative combinatorics to undergraduates. It introduces the most important ideas including basic enumerations, the inclusion--exclusion principle, formal power series, generating functions, groups and their actions, the basics of the Pólya method and recurrence relations. A lot of ``easy applications are given and homeworks are listed (with hints). The book also touches some elementary graph enumeration problems. The text is clear and easy to follow. It is even suitable to learn it alone, which is also aided by nice exam problems.




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